San Francisco y Dante
Golden Gate
Point
Punctual
Pointed Arch
Vanishing Point
Florence
West Point
Punto Guanacasteco
Egon Schiele
Prov.1:33
"But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil."
“Well, civilization as I understand it can be created
in a monastery or a court just as well as in a city-perhaps rather better. But
all the same, the social and economic system that grew up in Italian towns,
particularly in Florence in the thirteenth century, had a point. As opposed to
the system of chivalry, it was realistic: and the proof is that it has
survived. Industrial and banking conditions in Florence at the time of Dante,
were surprisingly similar to those that exist in Lombard Street today, except
that the double entry wasn’t invented till the fourteenth century.”~~~Kenneth Clark:
Civilisation. Ch3 Romance and Reality
“Two dimensional art –tapestry art-is enchanting. It
creates its own world of suspended belief. It allows the artist to free his
fancy and to decorate his surfaces. But for some reason it can’t develop. It
arrives at a limited perfection and there it sticks. But the moment you
introduce a third dimension-space, solidity- then the possibilities of
expansion and development are limitless.” ~~~Kenneth Clark: Civilisation.
Ch3 Romance and Reality
“Giotto had, more than any artist before him, the
ability to make his figures look solid. He manages to simplify them into large,
comprehensible, apprehensible shapes; and it gives one a profound satisfaction
to feel that one can grasp them so completely. He makes his figures more
vividly credible because he wishes us to feel more intensely the human drama in
which they are involved. Once we have, so to say, learnt Giotto’s language, we
can recognize him as one of the greatest masters of painted drama that has ever
lived.” ~~~Kenneth Clark: Civilisation. Ch3 Romance and Reality
The
Mystic Marriage of St. Francis is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist
Sasetta, currently housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly, France.
Egon
Schiele: Reclining Woman
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Chess
: “Point” “Punctual” “Florence” “San
Francisco y Dante” “Vanishing Point” “Egon Schiele” “Punto Guanacasteco” “West
Point” “Pointed Arch” "Golden Gate"
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